We have all lost friends and loved ones throughout our lives. It isn’t easy to let go of those who have meant so much to us. Some relationships come and go because the circumstances of our worlds change (such as our jobs, where we live or the addition of new family members). Some connections seem to fade […]
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Exhale Magazine‘s Summer 2011 Issue is here! This issue’s theme focuses on “Time as the Enemy. Time as the Friend.” I am excited that a review I wrote about my friend Carolyn Savage and her husband Sean’s book Inconceivable is among those featured in this current issue. For those of you not familiar with Exhale, it is an online […]
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Sometime over the past few weeks I became aware of an awesome project that Angie from Still Life with Circles had started on her blog. She began by writing a very thoughtful and moving post about where she is at in her grief and her life right now, two years, five months and counting since […]
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Today I ran in my 4th “Ridge Run” 5K race in our neighborhood. Prior to 5 years ago, in 2006, when I trained for and ran in my first 5K race, I had never run for pleasure or exercise before. Beyond that I didn’t understand or appreciate why anyone else would choose to do so. […]
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I won’t be sleeping in tomorrow and my family won’t be serving me breakfast in bed. But this isn’t because Bob and the kids aren’t thoughtful and wouldn’t do just about anything for me on the second Sunday in May every year. The reason is that I will be waking up early, along with about […]
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Last night Bob and I finally saw the Oscar winning movie The King’s Speech. We enjoyed the movie, especially in light of all the recent news coverage of the Royal Wedding last week. We finished watching the movie on a DVD a little after 10:00 p.m. (CST) For this reason we did not have a regular […]
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